The Admirable Crichton [Paradise Island]

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Draft script for the 1957 UK film, "The Admirable Crichton" [released in the US as "Paradise Lagoon"] a comedy starring Kenneth More, in which an English Lord and his servants are shipwrecked on a desert island, resulting in a reshuffling of the class system. Marked "Shooting Script" on the title page. White paper stock, with no revision pages,

Very Good with some creasing at the left edge, bound with a single metal clasp at the top left. Editor Peter Hunt's copy, from a collection of his scripts we acquired, with a few holograph notes by him throughout in lead pencil and red pencil.

Peter Hunt began his career in the UK film industry as an editor, working on several of the best-known early James Bond films ("Dr. No," "From Russia With Love," "Goldfinger"), as well as "The Ipcress File." He debuted as a director with "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" in 1969.